Home re-renovations?

(new patio furniture purchased this weekend. love it!!)

Where to begin? Last year I suppose. I closed on my condo in July. Immediately began planning my renovations. Since the condo was a short sale, it was in pretty gross condition. So the first couple weekends were spent cleaning. Now in the 5 or so years the place has been around, I'm not sure it was ever cleaned. Not once. So yes, it literally took a couple weekends to get years worth of dust and filth off of every single surface in the place.

Now that the cleaning was done, what to do next? Paint. Mark and I spent every day at work, and every night at home, browsing pictures online, trying to come up with the colors that would make our home perfect, warm, and inviting.

Thank goodness for Sherwin Williams' quart sized samples. We must have tried 10-15 before we found exactly what we wanted. Proceed to paint the whole condo (though small, it took us a surprisingly long time). Furniture picked out, U-hauled it up from VB, upacked all my boxes, and officially moved in. Love my home, love being a homeowner.

All great, right? Well... I guess I'm just still not done with the 'decorating' part. I've printed all my pictures, found pretty frames to display the faces of my loved ones, and sprinkled around what I think of as nice little touches, making the place feel warmer and more home-y. But how is it that the master bedroom was the last to be tackled? I would have figured it would have been the first....

So this past weekend I decided it was time to do something about it. I figured the green on the walls was my issue. I couldn't find a bedspread I wanted to look with it, no pictures on the wall or art for above the bed. Mark and I started talking about other color possibilities and came up with a light purple/grayish color. We made it to Sherwin Williams early Saturday morning and picked up two colors, came home and tried them out. (I sent mom a picture to which she responded- "poor mark" haha. I helped!)

Turns out we like both colors. But I wasn't sure I could imagine the entire room in either option. We went out shopping for awhile to look for more additions to the room. I wanted window treatments, a deep purple blanket for the bed, a piece of art for above the bed, lamps.... But wouldn't you know all we could find were things to match the original green walls? So I took it as a sign that I was meant to stay with the green, for awhile anyways. We hung up curtains, made the bed look pretty, and painted back over the purple to get back to the original color (thank you hunny).

Still not sure I'm obsessed with it, but it's an obvious improvement. All I've felt is that the green makes the room feel so dark, and it has brightened up immensely. Once we invest in bedside lamps, I think it will make a world of difference.

Looks like 'army' green is here to stay!